Bringing together a variety of environmental technologies in a single volume, "50 Green Projects for the Evil Genius" offers you environmentally focused projects from disciplines ranging from biology to physics to architecture. Filled with over 100 detailed illustrations, the book presents practical projects that can be built, assembled, or installed by the non-specialist.. .

This challenging resource features projects covering a water purifier. solar space heaters a water battery wind power turbines a worm compost bin retrofitting insulation a geodesic dome an electric generator a simple steam engine an electric skateboard an anaerobic digester for food and yard waste and much more. The reference also contains a full plan, schematics, guidance on materials, and reference sources for each of the 50 projectsplus coupons for full project kits from third parties..

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics

ISBN:

9780071549592

Publication date:

January 2009

Length:

276mm

Width:

213mm

Thickness:

10mm

Weight:

476g

Edition:

illustrated edition

Pages:

193

Illustrations:

Illustrated

• 1. Introduction 2. Environmentally Sensitive Buildings and materials Passive solar design and wind catchers
• Retrofitting insulation
• Geodesic dome
• A strawbale shelter
• A sandbag (earthbag) shelter
• The hexayurt 3. Using the Sun Solar space heaters: Trickle water based space heater
• A thermo-syphon air heater
• A trombe wall Solar cooling
• Using and installing solar electric (PV) and solar thermal water heaters on the roof of your house
• Concentrating solar power 4. Power and Electricity Measuring torque
• A simple electric generator
• A linear alternator Simple electric batteries
• A water battery 5. Using water: pumping, power, storage and drinking Spiral water pump
• Ram pump
• Waterwheels
• Pumps as turbines
• Water purifier 6. Wind Power Site selection and safety issues
• Horizontal turbines
• Vertical turbines 7. Dealing with Waste A worm compost bin
• An aerated composter 8. Waste to Energy An anaerobic digester for your household food and yard waste
• An anaerobic digester for your effluents 9. Power production from multiple heat sources A simple steam engine
• A simple beta type stirling engine
• A fluid-cylinder heat engine
• Simple Rakine cycle engine
• Sound engine
• Moving cylinder and rotary heat engines 10. Fuels and Transportation Wood gas digester
• An electric skateboard
• Vegetable oil in engines: Pressing your own oil with a simple oil press
• Straight vegetable oil
• Vegetable oil and kerosene
• Biodiesel The fire-piston
• Human powered and dry!: Working with fiberglass
• Steel-frame and fabric
• Building a Zote-foam fairing for your trike
• Carbon-fibre and carbon-Kevlar 11. Conclusion